Drive for 28! Farewell Jeter!!! 2014 Yanks Official Thread

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Sabathia played like ass today.

[Biernutz]

Astros bitch slap the Yankees and have a Jetter retirement tour send off by pinking him with the first pitch.

[irishock]

He should retire tomorrow night, tbh...

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

He should retire tomorrow night, tbh...

coasting, tbh..

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Injury Report



New York




Ivan Nova (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/30400/ivan-nova) SP - Apr 20: 15-Day DL
Brendan Ryan (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/28789/brendan-ryan) SS - Apr 19: 15-Day DL
David Robertson (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/29172/david-robertson) RP - Apr 19: 15-Day DL
David Phelps (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/31124/david-phelps) SP - Apr 18: Day-To-Day
Carlos Beltran (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/3971/carlos-beltran) RF - Apr 18: Day-To-Day
Mark Teixeira (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/4937/mark-teixeira) 1B - Apr 18: 15-Day DL
Brian Roberts (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/4773/brian-roberts) 2B - Apr 16: Day-To-Day
Derek Jeter (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/3246/derek-jeter) SS - Apr 16: Day-To-Day
Brian McCann (http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/6309/brian-mccann) C - Apr 16: Day-To-Day







Looking a lot like last year.

[Biernutz]

Nova to get Tommy John surgery next week................
Michal Pineda is suspended for 10 days for being stupid with pine tar.....

[td4mvp2k]

:lol derek shiter

[RobbyH]

:lmao derek
:lmao can't even baserun now
:lmao fielding range of a 10 year old

[Biernutz]

Derek overstayed. He can't pull the ball anymore and has no range at short. He is a shell of what hi prime was.
It's a shame these will be the last memory's of Jeter... Time waits for no one.......

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

:lmao derek
:lmao can't even baserun now
:lmao fielding range of a 10 year old

:lol premature ejaculation

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Derek overstayed. He can't pull the ball anymore and has no range at short. He is a shell of what hi prime was.
It's a shame these will be the last memory's of Jeter... Time waits for no one.......

Maybe.. but for his age he's playing fairly well... Almost at .300 despite his horrid 0-7 performance

[Clipper Nation]

:lmao derek
:lmao can't even baserun now
:lmao fielding range of a 10 year old
:lmao Dumbasses calling me a "stat nerd" this winter for pointing out that Jeter has no fielding range

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

:cry Dumbasses calling me a "stat nerd" this winter for pointing out that Jeter has no fielding range

[IrisHockey]

:lol Too bad for Frizzell, the Red Sox are rolling.. I was thinking the Yankees would run away with that division since the BJs will choke for sure, but now it's back in the hands of the defending champs.

[Strange Love]

:lol Too bad for Frizzell, the Red Sox are rolling.. I was thinking the Yankees would run away with that division since the BJs will choke for sure, but now it's back in the hands of the defending champs.

You giving props to the red sox? I'm impressed.

[Biernutz]

Sox win 6 in a row after that long losing streak. They are 6 games behind the Jays in the division
and 3.5 behind in the wild card.....Not half way season yet

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Man, is Tanaka raw! 10k's on Toronto and pulled within 5 of the Jays..

No debate on whether or not he should be the All-Star starting pitcher for the AL.

[IrisHockey]

:lmao Jeter

[IrisHockey]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H7h0uvELRHc/U6ocSUsjBmI/AAAAAAAAD6g/NnTv3_nCFa0/s1600/jeter.gif
Clipper Nation

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

today we play the Sox... can't stand those dirty fuckers.

Can't stand Big Papi from International play either.. hopefully Beltran takes a wet shit on him just like 09... oh wait they couldn't even get past Netherlands :lol

[TampaDude]

Dead Sox in the AL East cellar now. Rays have been on a bit of a run lately.

[Biernutz]

Yanks place ace pitcher Masahrio Tanakaon the 15 day DL with a inflamed elbow. A MRI is scheduled.
there is some conversity about how many pitches a Japanese pitcher throws before 25...It seems like
all of them that have come to the US have had some arm trouble and they seem to fade out after a couple of years.....

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pitch-counts-are-a-real-concern-when-it-comes-to-sensation-masahiro-tanaka-055941978.html

[dbreiden83080]

Derek overstayed. He can't pull the ball anymore and has no range at short. He is a shell of what hi prime was.
It's a shame these will be the last memory's of Jeter... Time waits for no one.......

He's beloved forever in NY no matter what.. Donnie Baseball had next to nothing left in the tank with his bad back at the end and the fans showered with him love knowing the end was near..

[Clipper Nation]

Looks like Tanaka's already done:

http://espn.go.com/newyork/mlb/story/_/id/11201116/masahiro-tanaka-new-york-yankees

:lol 7-year contract for the new Dice-K
:lol Yankees

[Reck]

Looks like Tanaka's already done:

http://espn.go.com/newyork/mlb/story/_/id/11201116/masahiro-tanaka-new-york-yankees

:lol 7-year contract for the new Dice-K
:lol Yankees

Yeah japanese picthers always fizzle out within two to three years. Odd seem as how when they are position players they are consistent as fuck.

I wonder how long till Darvish goes down the tube.

[IrisHockey]

:lmao asian pitchers going down faster than black PGs

[txstr1986]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X03_bNuihLU

[Biernutz]

:lmao asian pitchers going down faster than black PGs

In another 10 years there wont be any American blacks in baseball....They don't play baseball anymore......

[Biernutz]

another classy Yankee fan....



http://youtu.be/lHSjeL9ZpBQ

[Biernutz]

Derek Jeter moves into sixth place on all-time hits list......

[N0 LyF3 ScRuB]

Who would you take: Jeter or Ichiro prime?

[dbreiden83080]

Who would you take: Jeter or Ichiro prime?

I think Ichiro took a lot of heat in Seattle for being kind of a dick and wasn't much of a leader..

So Jeter..

[Pelicans78]

We can close this thread.

[AlexJones]

2004 Ichiro was better than Jeter in any season.

[Sean Cagney]

In another 10 years there wont be any American blacks in baseball....They don't play baseball anymore......

That is a damn shame then because they produced some of the best talent the game has ever seen on any end of the spectrum. If that part is true then damn........ Willie Mays, Hank and the other legends! Joe Morgan and on and on, wonder why the don't play baseball anymore? I noticed less and less though as time went on, in the 80's you had Darryl, Doc Gooden, Joe Carter, Puckett, Eric Davis, Fred Mcgriff and the list goes on and on and on, very talented athletes.

Griffey came later, the Big HURT! Legends.

[dbreiden83080]

2004 Ichiro was better than Jeter in any season.

Prime vs Prime I bet more GM's take Jeter..

[AlexJones]

Prime vs Prime I bet more GM's take Jeter..

GM's that don't care for advanced metrics, perhaps.

[dbreiden83080]

GM's that don't care for advanced metrics, perhaps.

Numbers that probably would have called Pete Rose a role player..

[AlexJones]

Of course he gets a meatball.

[AaronY]

Of course he gets a meatball.
Orioles needed to win out for home field.

[Robz4000]

Scripted

[AlexJones]

Congratulations to the most overrated shitty defensive player of all time not named Kobe Bryant.

[AaronY]

feel sorry for some of you guys

[Chris]

That shit was classic, what a way to go out.

[JamStone]

Orioles needed to win out for home field.

Orioles needed to win out and Angels lose out. Highly unlikely. If the Orioles had any designs on the best AL record, why would Showalter rest Adam Jones, Nick Markakis, JJ Hardy, and Steve Pearce all multiple games since securing the AL East? Heck, they lost 3 of their next 5 games after winning the division. Those are not signs of a team going balls out to get home field.

More telling last night are the relief pitchers Showalter used late in the game. Joe Saunders came into the game with a 7.02 ERA. He pitched the 8th. And once the Orioles tied up the game, did Showalter go to one of his main late innings guys as he would in almost any other situation, like Tommy Hunter or Darren O'Day? Nope. He went to Evan Meek, he of the 5.48 ERA and 1.52 WHIP copper standard. Come on. If you can't read between the lines, then there's something wrong with you. Did Buck tell Meek to throw Jeter a meatball? I'm sure he didn't. But did Showalter give his Orioles the best chance to win the game? Not even close. Scripted might be too strong a word, but even the Orioles seemed to want to play along and have cameo credits in this play. It was a meaningless game for the Orioles. Jeter's first major league manager threw him a bone. Jeter still had to catch the bone, which he did. But still a bone.

Derek Jeter was a really good hitter for much of his career. He was an average to well below average fielding shortstop for much of his career. He's had great moments on the field with the bloody face, in the post season with the flip assist, and with record moments like hitting a HR for his 3000th hit. A relatively squeaky clean image other than the perception of being a womanizer, which most fans have no problem with. He did it in New York with the New York Yankees in a heartless but mecca like town and was part of a lot of winning and multiple championships. But he wasn't as great as ESPN and some knobpolishers are making him out to be. A lot of his hype has to do with the fact that he played for the Yankees. A lot of the hype has to do with being part of so many winning teams, not unlike a James Worthy, where being a part of a lot of championships can pump up a player's legacy. Derek Jeter was a great player, but never one of the best players in the game. And even arguably never the best player on his teams. The one World Series MVP helps I guess. He is going to be the first unanimous first ballot Hall of Famer not because he was that great, but because he did it for the Yankees and did it in a "classy" way during much of the steroids era while not being attached to any of those PED rumors. Heck, his list of famous girlfriends probably helps his cause as much as his actual career statistics.

If Derek Jeter did not play for the Yankees, he'd basically be Paul Molitor. Still a Hall of Fame caliber player, but nowhere near the pomp and circumstance he's getting right now.

[JoeTait75]

A relatively squeaky clean image other than the perception of being a womanizer, which most fans have no problem with.

To be fair he womanized the right way. Didn't get married young, didn't cheat, kept it relatively under wraps, didn't get in any embarrassing situations.

As a player he was good but yeah, a little overrated. Of the Big Three AL shortstops of the '90s I'd put him behind both A-Rod and Nomar. People forget how good Nomar was in his too-short prime.

[AaronY]

Makes no sense because even if they put in the worst relievers in history there's no way they could have ensured Jeter would have been the guy that had gotten the game winning hit or that Jones and that the other guy would have homered in the ninth.

[JamStone]

Makes no sense because even if they put in the worst relievers in history there's no way they could have ensured Jeter would have been the guy that had gotten the game winning hit or that Jones and that the other guy would have homered in the ninth.

For the record, I don't think the "entire" thing was staged. The point about the relievers Showalter used was to counter your suggestion that Baltimore was trying to win out to get the best record in the AL. They clearly were not going balls out to get the best record. Again, they wouldn't have been resting their best players multiple games since winning the AL East had they been trying to catch the Angels for the best record.

I don't think Robertson was trying to give the game away when the Yankees already had the game in hand.

But once the situation presented itself to have Jeter be the hero in the bottom of the 9th, the Orioles played along with the script. Why would Showalter use those relievers? And with Meek being more of a groundball pitcher throughout his career and Brian McCann leading the Yankees in grounding into double plays, doesn't common baseball sense dictate they walk Jeter to play for the double play with only one out? Showalter would have been assassinated if he intentionally walked Jeter. Then why not use Tommy Hunter? It was all too convenient.

The whole thing wasn't scripted. But Showalter and the Orioles didn't mind what was transpiring in the bottom of the 9th. It was a meaningless game for both teams, other than the whole theater of being Jeter's last home game. All too convenient.

[lefty]

:cry class